PHP South Coast 2017
9 - 10 Jun 2017 at Action Stations

Surprise! The creator of xdebug knows xdebug really well!
I was afraid the level of the talk would be too high because the creator himself is giving the talk, but I could perfectly follow.

Also loved the example of the switch, was a cool sidenote.

For me it was a little bit too dry, i think such a complex subject would be better fitted for a longer type of talk.

Excellent talk, i finally understand how a phpcs.xml file is build.
Only thing I would have liked to see (but you cannot give 4.5 stars ;) ) is how to actually build your own sniff.
I have no idea how difficult it is, but I have the feeling that Juliette could give a great explanation of it. :)

Also bonus points for enthusiasm !

Really good introduction to a really interesting tool.
Will check it out!

Lasershooting rocks - was a great social!!!

Really great keytalk. I like that it is different than most "community is good" typical key talks, this was more focussed on a sense of wonder - sometimes we forgot how amazing the internet actually is. Samanta did a good job reminding us of that.

The only downside was that sometimes she would mention some historical details that went really in dept, but then not really explain what they meant, making it difficult to follow when you are not such a history-geek.
Maybe either mention terms and explain them or just gloss over them in a more general description.

A fun talk with some nice tips on PhpStorm.
The two features that I liked was the search everywhere that actually searches everywhere (duh!) and shows the shortcuts for more specific searches.
And the productivity guide looks quite useful too. :)

Good talk, did learn some cool JS tricks, some items or more debatable, like only loading items above the fold, and then loading it after the user starts scrolling. This would cause a lot of extra network traffic and may cause scaleability issues, something the speaker didn't mention.

Reason I only give a 3 is because technical details how to actually implement some suggestions where not mentioned.
For example, "prioritize the downloading of assets in a certain order", is a cool tip but he didn't explain at all how to actually do it.

The breakdown of concepts that I'd struggled to get previously into simple, easy to understand explanations was great.

Phunkie looks like a really neat library, and I liked the demonstration showing how the tool can work, that was really neat.

Some more examples on when to use such an approach would have been good.

Super excellent talk! Funny and educating at the same time. Also really good plus that there is lost of audience engagement, that makes you really invested in the talk. I think there went quite some research into the talk.

There was no discussion how to actually prevent you being trapped by the assumptions, like internalisation-libs, but I am not sure this talk needed that anyway. Might be a nice thing to mention on the side when there is time left or something.

The only (very) small thing I would maybe add is sometimes to put in an assumption that is actually true, so that the answer isn't always "no"... just to keep the audience on their tows. Would make it even more funny.